Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village by H. Ian Hogbin

Author:H. Ian Hogbin [Hogbin, H. Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, Psychotherapy, Child & Adolescent, Social Science, Anthropology, General, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Death & Dying
ISBN: 9781000323368
Google: AHwSEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-07T03:53:48+00:00

THE FAMILY

Sons continue to be deeply attached to their mother and often perform little services for her without being asked, such as helping if a load is especially heavy. They may also give her the best of their fish instead of sharing it. Although they remain uncomplaining in the club for a day or two if suffering from a cold or a slight attack of malaria, they always go home when afflicted by a more serious illness. At such times they want her to soothe their pains and cook them special food.

A measure of the sons' devotion is the fact that nowadays the worst insult is telling a person he has copulated with his mother. Nobody would accept the words lightly, and on the one occasion I have known them to be used the man addressed swore that for the rest of his life he would never

(a) Fetching water

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